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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019
Baylor, Oregon face off in Final Four
By FRED GOODALL
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Kim
Mulkey rejects the notion
that being the No. 1 overall
seed makes Baylor the team
to beat in the women’s Final
Four.
The Lady Bears (35-1),
who are riding a 27-game
winning streak and have
trounced four opponents
in the NCAA Tournament
by an average of 38 points,
face Final Four newcomer
Oregon (33-4) in today’s
national semifi nals (4 p.m.
Pacifi c, ESPN2).
The winner advances
to Sunday’s championship
against either UConn or
Notre Dame.
Mulkey, who’s won titles
as a player and an assistant
coach at Louisiana Tech in
addition to guiding Baylor
to a pair of NCAA crowns,
said it would be a mistake
to assume the Lady Bears
are clearcut favorites.
“We don’t approach
it like: ‘Oh, wow, we’re
the No. 1 seed, we’re sup-
posed to win.’ According
to a lot of people, we’re not
supposed to win,” Mulkey
said.
“We’re going to fi ght.
We’re going to claw. We’re
going to compete. We’re
going to give it our best
shot,” she added. “I’m sure
the other three teams are
AP Photo/Chris O’Meara
Oregon guard Sabrina Ionescu puts up a shot during practice.
going to do the same thing.”
Oregon promises as much.
Led by All-American
point guard Sabrina Ionescu,
the Ducks are in the Final
Four for the fi rst time after
use their size to dominate on
both ends of the fl oor.
Oregon, meanwhile, plays
a contrasting perimeter-ori-
ented style that coach Kelly
Graves acknowledged has
prompted some people to call
the Ducks the Golden State
Warriors of women’s college
basketball.
“Steph
Curry
gave
Sabrina quite a shout out yes-
terday, I thought that was
really cool,” Graves said.
“You know what, yeah, she’s
a lot like Steph, how he’s a
conductor, is always a threat
to make a huge play, make
those 3-pointers.”
Baylor’s Caitlin Bickle
said “they’re calling it new
school versus old school.”
upsetting another No. 1 seed,
Mississippi State, in the Elite
Eight.
“We’re honored and hum-
bled to be here, but I think
we all know we don’t want to
go home tomorrow,” Ionescu
said after practice Thursday
at Amalie Arena. “We didn’t
just come here to enjoy the
experience. We came here
to win some more basketball
games.”
Baylor is back in the Final
Four for the time since 2012,
when it fi nished a 40-0 sea-
son and captured its second
national title.
The Lady Bears are led by
an imposing frontcourt fea-
turing 6-foot-4 Lauren Cox
and 6-7 Kalani Brown and
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Congress invokes powers
to challenge Trump on
war in Yemen
WASHINGTON — Rejecting a plank
of President Donald Trump’s foreign pol-
icy, the House on Thursday invoked nev-
er-before-used powers to demand that his
administration withdraw support from the
Saudi-led war in Yemen. The Senate passed
the same resolution in March with biparti-
san support.
Trump is expected to issue a veto of the
measure, his second as president, and Con-
gress does not have the votes to override
him. But the action was nonetheless a mile-
stone for lawmakers, who have shown a
renewed willingness to assert their war-mak-
ing powers after letting them atrophy for
decades under presidents from both parties.
Yemen was plunged into a civil war in
September 2014, when rebels known as
Houthis swept into the capital and over-
threw the country’s internationally recog-
nized government. The Saudi-led coalition
began fi ghting the rebels months later in a
campaign that Saudi Arabia said was aimed
at curbing Iranian infl uence. At the time, the
Houthis were allied with forces backed by
Iran; in the years that followed, Iran’s role in
the confl ict has grown.
The confl ict has been a bloody stale-
mate for years. Thousands have been killed
in Saudi airstrikes on civilian infrastruc-
ture, and millions are on the brink of star-
vation. The war has devastated the economy
of Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country.
The vast majority of the population cannot
afford food to eat.
Trump drops border
shutdown threat and
proposes auto tariffs
WASHINGTON — Abandoning his
threat to immediately seal the southern bor-
der, President Donald Trump warned instead
that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the
U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do
more to stop the fl ow of migrants and drugs
to the U.S.
In his latest backtrack in recent days,
Trump told reporters Thursday he would try
the “less drastic measure” before resorting to
his standing border-closure threat.
“Mexico understands that we’re going
to close the border or I’m going to tariff the
cars. I’ll do one or the other. And probably
start off with the tariffs,” Trump said. He
added later: “I don’t think we’ll ever have to
close the border because the penalty of tariffs
on cars coming into the United States from
Mexico, at 25 percent, will be massive.”
It was the latest, seemingly sudden
attempt at new leverage by a president strug-
gling to solve what his administration has
called a border “crisis.” And it was a dra-
matic departure for Trump, who last week
tweeted that he would close the border or
large swaths of it this week unless Mex-
ico immediately halted “ALL illegal immi-
gration coming into the United States” — a
seemingly impossible task.
Japan spacecraft drops
explosive on asteroid to
make crater
TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said an
explosive dropped today from its Hayabusa2
spacecraft successfully blasted the surface of
an asteroid for the fi rst time to form a crater
and pave the way for the collection of under-
ground samples for possible clues to the ori-
gin of the solar system.
Today’s mission was the riskiest for Hay-
abusa2 because it had to immediately move
away so it wouldn’t get hit by fl ying shards
from the blast.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, or JAXA, said Hayabusa2 dropped
a small explosive box which sent a copper
ball the size of a baseball slamming into the
asteroid, and that data confi rmed the space-
craft had safely evacuated and remained
intact. JAXA later confi rmed the impact
from images transmitted from a camera left
behind by the spacecraft which showed the
impactor being released and fi ne particles
later spraying dozens of yards out from a
spot on the asteroid.
JAXA plans to send Hayabusa2, which
was moved to the other side of the asteroid,
back to the site after dust and debris settle for
observations and to collect samples of mate-
rial from the new crater that was unexposed
to the sun or space rays. Scientists hope the
samples will help them understand the his-
tory of the solar system, since asteroids are
leftover material from its formation.
Suspect held in 4 slayings
at North Dakota business
MANDAN, N.D. — Police following
evidence from surveillance video arrested a
44-year-old man Thursday in the slayings of
four people at a property management busi-
ness, just days after the discovery of their
bodies shook a North Dakota town.
Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler
said investigators don’t yet have a motive,
but the suspect lived on property managed
by the company, RJR Maintenance and
Management.
Ziegler said the suspect lived in Wash-
burn, a town about 35 miles north of Man-
dan, and was arrested without incident. He
had not been formally charged but was being
held on suspicion of four counts of felony
murder.
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